The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-09-28
CHRISTIAN WOMEN.
DR.. TAI.MAGE'S SUNDAY SERMON.
Some Of shc Special Rights Which Be-
l0nS to True W0maIhOod.

SO Solomon, by one stroke, set forth tie
imperial character OF true Christian woman
She Is not . slave not a hlreiinG. not a sub
ordinate, but a queen: and in my text Solo
mon sees sixty of these helping to make up
the royal pageant of Jesus. In 4 former SER
mon showed YOU that crown and courtly
attendants and imperial wardrobe were not
necessary to make a queen; but that graceS
OF the heart and life will give coronation TO
any woman l showed You at some length
that womanS position was higher in the world
than mans and that although she had often
been denied the right OF suifrage she always
did Vote and always would vote by her intiu
ence: and that her chief desire ought to be
that she should have grace rightly to rule in
the dominion which she has alrcai V Won. |
began an enumeration OF some OF her rights
and this morning resume the subject.
In the first place. woman has the special
and the superlative riGht-not again going
back TO what l have already Said-woman
has theS,ecial and superlative right OF bless
ing and comforting the sick.
What land, what street, what house has
not fet the smitingS OF disease: Tens OF
thousands of sick beds, What shall We do
with them. Shall man. with his rough land
ana clumSy foot, so stumbling around the
SICK room. trying 10 Soothe the distracted
nerves and alleviate the pains OF the tossing
patient: The young man at college may
scott at the idea OF being under maternal in
fuenceS, but at the first blast OF the typhoid
fever on his cheek he says: Where is
mother" Walter Scott wrote partly il
Satlre and ?artly in compliment when he said:
O woman, in our hours OF ease.
Uncertain, coy and hard 10 please;
When pam and anguish wing thr brow,
= niDStecinS angel thoc.
think the most pathetic passage in all the
Bible is the description Of the lad who went
out to the harI est field Of ShuncIn and got
sunstruck-throwing his hands on hiStemplcs
and crying out '.Oh, my head my head :"
and they said Garry him to his mother"
And then the record is: He sat on her knees
till noon, and then died" 1t is an awful
thing TO be Ill away from home in a strange
hotel, once il a while men coming in to look
at you. holding their hand over their mouth
for fear they will catch the contagion. How
roughly they turn you II bed. How loudly
they talk. How You long for the ministries
OF home. l knew one such who Went away
from one OF tic brightest of homes for
several weeks business absence at the West.
4 telegram came at midnight that he was
on his death bed, far away from home. By
express train the wife and daughters went
westward; but .hey went too late. Ae feared
not TO die. but he was in agony TO live until
his family got there. He tried to hribe
the doctor TO make him live a little
while longer. He said: u am willing to die
but not alone" But the pulses hutterel, the
eyes closed. and the heart stopped. The eN.
press trains met in the midnight; wife and
daughters going westward-lfeleSS remains
of husband and father coming eastward. Q,
it was sad, pitiful, overwhelming
spectacle, When we are sick we want
to be back at home. Wien the
time CONES for us to die, we want tc
Gle at home The room may be very
humble, and the faces that look into
ours may be very plain; but who cares for
that: Loving hands to bathe the temples.
Loving voices to speak good cheer. Loving
lips TO read the comforting promises Of Jesus
III our last dreadful war men cast the cam
non: men fashioned the rIlusketry: men cried
to the hosts: Forward, march" men hurled
their battalions on the sharp edges OF the
enemy. crying: Charge. charge" but woman
Scraped the lint: woman administered the
cordials; woman watched by the dying
couch: woman wrote the last message to the
home circle: woman wept at the solitary
burial attended by herself and fo"r men with
q spade. We greeted the genera! home
with brass bands, and triunphal arches.
and wild huzZas: but the story is too coed 10
be written anywhere, save in the chronicles
of heaven. of Mrs. Brady, who cam" down
among the sick in the swanpS OF the Chcha-
hominy; of Annie Ross. IL the cooper shop
hospital; Of NJ; r. ret BlcckinrilSe vto came
to men WHO al been for weeks with their
wounds UndresS.L-Some OF them frozen to
the ground. and when she tGlned t:l@,l over
those tha: has; IN arm left waved ii and filed
the air with their ''hur-ah:" OF Mrs. Hodge,
who cane from Chicago with blankets and
with pillows, until the men shouted Three
cheers for the Christian Commission.
God bless the women at home,
then sitting down TO take the last
message: Tell my wife not to fret
y I'll I,
to train up the boys whom we have love! so
well: tell her we shall meet again in the good
land; :ell her to bear my loss Ike the Chris
tian wife OF {: Christian solder" ard of Mrs.
Shelton. into whose face the conyaleScent
soldier looked and said: Your gra:cs
and cologne cured me-" Men did
their work with shot and shell. and carhine,
aad howitzer: women did their work wiki
socks, and slippers, and bandageS. and warm
drinks, and Scripture texts. ani gentie stroi-
ings OF the hot temples, and stories of that
land where they never have any pain Men
knelt down over the wounded and said: Son
which side did You fight Women knelr
down over the wounded and said: ''Where
are You hurtt What nice thing can l make
for you to eat! What makes YOU cry; To
night, While we Ileit are sound asleep in or
beds, there viii be !. light in y"n,!cr lott;
there will be grooming down th::; dark alley:
there viii be cries Of distress in that cellar
Men will sleep and women Will watch.
Again, woman has a superlative right to
take care of the poor. There arc hundreds
and thousands of them all over the land.
There is kind Of work that m2n cannot 10
for the poor Here comes a grouo OF little bare
foot children TO the door OF the Do-cas Soci.-
tv. They need TO be clothed and pro"iiedior:
Which OF these directors OF banks would
know how many yards it would take To make
that little girl dress: Which of these mas
line hands could tit 4 hat to that little
ueads When or the wise i,,>.
would know how to tie on a new pair OF
shoes! Man sometimes giyeS his charity
in rough way, and it falls like the fruit
of tree in the east, which fruit Genes
down so heavily that 1t breaks the S:i"'l
Of the man who is trying to gather it. !5'!t
woman glides so softly into the house of dos
titutioa, and finds OUT all the SORROWS OF the
place, and puts so quietly the donation on the
table, that all the family come out on the
front steps as she departs, expecting tnao
from under her shawl she will thrust out two
wings and go right up toward heaTen. from
whence she seems 10 have come down.
Oh, Christian Young woman. II You
would make yourself happy and WIN
the blessings OF Christ, 90 out among
the destitute. 4 loaf of bread ora bundle OF
socks may make homely load to carry, bat
the angels OF God will come ont to watch,
and the Lord Almighty will give his laeS-
senger hosts a charge, saying: Look after
that woman. Canopy her with Your wings
and shelter her from all harm and While
You are seated in the house of dsStituuion and
suffering, the little ones around the room
will whisper: Who is she: Amt she beau
tlful:' ami if You will listen right sharply you
will hear dripping down through the leaky
roof and rolling over the rotten stairs, the
chant har shook RefhlaNnuN II (I'OrV